Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     A gentleman on a visit to Scotland, came across some men who were washing sheep. Close to the water where the operation was being carried on was a small pen, in which a detachment of ten sheep were placed handy to the men for washing. While watching the performance his attention was called to a sheep-dog lying down close by. This animal, on the pen becoming nearly empty, without a word from any one, started off to the main body of the flock and brought back ten of their number and drove them into the empty washing pens. The fact of the bringing exactly the same number of sheep as had vacated it he looked upon at first as a strange coincidence, a mere chance. But he continued looking on, and, much to his surprise, as soon as the men had reduced the number to three sheep, the dog started off again and brought back ten more; and so he continued throughout the afternoon, never bringing one more nor one less, and always going for a fresh lot when only three were left in the pen, evidently aware that during the time the last three were washing he would be able to bring up a fresh detachment.-Land and Water.